I can't stand this anymore. You have no idea that this is the case. I've asked two different gun shop owners / operators in the past week if they've had issues with their Marlins. None. I inspected more Marlins. No problems. "Common problems"???? Yeah right. But I managed to get 3 excellent models in a row during the time they were supposed to have "common issues". Go ahead and bash me for not jumping on the bashing bandwagon. I've got the rifles to prove otherwise. Go ahead and make false allegations against me. I'm not the one leading newbies astray.
Do you know what it means for me to have gotten 3 good rifles during this period of supposed "junk" Marlins? Do you know anything about statistics? Try flipping a coin and see how often you get 3 heads in a row or 3 tails in a row. There's a scientifically defined level at which things are considered significant based on the odds. 3 in a row is possibly just good luck. But I've observed far more than that. I inspected about 15 rilfes including the 3 I bought. Not one of them have the problems described as "common" here. The odds of that happening even if just half of the Marlins had problems are in the hundreds of millions to one at least. If you don't believe me read up on statistics and probability for yourself on
this web page.
Bash away folks. You can't argue with statistics even though you want to really bad. And my sample is really not limited to my experience. I've included the experience of two shop operators. Your cheap shots don't trump science.
Do I think there are some problems? Yes I do. Do I think they're "common"? Not a chance in a hundred million (probably much higher but I'm not wading through the formulas for an exact answer so I'm giving a conservative estimate).